Trolley for electric-railway cars.



No.`672,653. Patented Apr'. 23, |90`I.

A A. SCHNEIDER.

TROLLEY FOR ELECTRIC RAILWAY CARS.

(Application tiled Oct. 15, 1900.)

l l Il E I I I UNNITED STATES PATENT AUGUST SCHNEIDER, OF LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FREDERICK R. TCE WATER, OF SAME PLACE.

TROLLEY FOR ELECTRIC-RAILWAY CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part f Letters Patent N0. 672,653, dated April 23, 1901.

Application tiled October 15,1900. Serial No. 33,157. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it mag/concern.: so as to overlap the grooved periphery of the Be it known that I, AUGUST SCHNEIDER, a wheel, and from thence are inclined outward citizen of the United States, residing at LeX- in opposite directions at substantially right ington, in the county of Fayette and State of angles to one another. The divergent arms 55 Kentucky, have invented new and usefullm- 8 constitute guides which are adapted to enprovements in Trolleys for Electric-Railway gage the overhead cond uctor-wire and guide Cars, of which the followingis a specification. the wheel into engagement therewith, and

This invention relates to trolleys for electhe contracted portion of the arms overhang tric-railway cars which take current from an and embrace the conductor-wire and operate 6o 1o overhead conductor, and has for its object, to hold the trolley-wheel in engagement irst, to provide an extremely simple, ineX- therewith. The base 9 of the support 3 is pensive, and efiicient guide for supporting provided with a perforation 10 for the recepthe trolley-wheel, for guiding the trolleytion of a screw l1, and in the end of the trolwheel onto the conductor, and for preventing ley-pole 2 is inserted a wooden plug 12, into 65 the trolley-wheel from becoming disengaged which the screw 11 is screwed, thus firmly atfrom the conductor through the vibration of taching the trolley-wheel support to the pole.

the trolley-pole and other causes. Interposed between the base 9 of the support It also has for its object to attach the troland the end of the trolley-pole is a washer 13, ley-wheel to the trolley-pole in an improved p fubher or other suitable material, which 7o 2o and novel manner, `whereby the trolley-wheel will operate to insulate the trolley-wheel and may be readily attached to the tubular meits support from the pole, and said washer tallic trolley-poles now in common use. and the wooden plug 12 are perforated, as

To these ends my invention consists in the shown, through which is passed the feedfeatures and in the construction, combinawire 14. The feed-wire passes down through 75 z5 tion, and arrangement of parts hereinafter the trolley-pole to the controller and motor described, andparticularly pointed out in the in the usual manner and at its upper end is claims following the description, reference attached to the screw 11, thus putting the being had to the accompanying drawings, trolley-wheel in electrical connection with the forming a part of this specificatiomwhereinmotor. 8O

3o Figure 1 is a perspective view of my im- In Fig. 3 of the drawings I have illustrated proved trolley. Fig. 2 is a vertical central a slightly-modified construction wherein the sectional view thereof, and Fig. 3 is a similar wooden plug 12 is dispensed with and a view illustrating a modified manner of atthreaded shank 15 is cast integrally with the taching the trolley to the trolley-pole. trolley-support. The end of the trolley-pole 85 Referring to Figs. 1 and 2of the drawings, is interiorly threaded, and the shank l5 is the numeral 1 indicates the trolley-wheel, screwed therein, thus directly attaching the and 2 the trolley-pole, consisting of a tubular trolley-wheel support to the pole. By means metallic rod such as is commonly employed of the construction shown the trolley-wheel for the purpose. The numeral 3 indicates may be readily and cheaply attached to the 9o 4o the trolley-wheel support, consisting of a metrolley-poles now in com mon use, thus avoidtallic casting, the body portion 4 of which is ing the necessity of providing new poles es.A substantially U-shaped, as shown, and is propecially constructed for the purpose. vided with two perforations through which Having described my invention, what I passes a rod 5, secured in place by nuts 6, claim isscrewed over the ends thereof. The trolley- 1. The combination with a trolley-pole, of

wheel 8 is journaled on the rod 5 between the atrolley-wheel support comprisingasingleintwo members 4 of the support, and said memtegral metallic body substantially U-shaped bers terminate in two divergent arms 7, and screwed at its base to the end of the trol- `which are curved upward and forward, as ley-pole, and atrolley-wheel journaled in the roo 5o shown. Said arms, immediately above the parallel arms of said support, said arms ditrolley-wheel, converge toward one another, verging from one another above the trolleywheel at an angle of substantially ninety degrees, and said divergent arms bein-g also deflected forward at an angle to the parallel arms, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a trolley-wheel, of a trolley-Wheel support comprising asingle integral metallic body substantially U- shaped and screwed at its base to the end' of the trolley-pole, a trolley-Wheel jonrnaled in the parallel arms of said support, said parallel arms immediately above the trolley- Wheel being contracted or extended inward toward one. another and thence extended ent.- ward at substantially a right angle to one an,- other, said divergent portions of the arms being also deflected forward at an angle to the parallel portions, substantially as described.

3*. The combination with a trolley-pole comprising a tubular rod having a Wooden plug fitted in its end, of a trolley-wheel support consisting of a substantially U-shaped metal-lic body having a screw-hole in its base, a Washer of insulating material disposed between the end of the pole and the base of the trolley-wheel support, and a headed screw passing through the screw-hole in the base of said support and through the Washer and 4screwed'into the. wooden plug, said plug,

washer and base having coincident holes formed therein, and a feed wire passing through the pole through said coincident holes, the end of said wire being clasped between the head of the screw and the base of the support, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses. Y

AUGUST SCHNEIDER. 

